Son, Pha- gOS, prices. Bring in ew. Don’t | cost. Thanking j 4 handle ght in car- ore in disposition. ' work hard to pay the taxes levied on his po to bed. CR JUST BE GLAD, heart of mine, we shouldn't Worrysol + Wgve missed of calm we eouldnt erred in that dark hour, : We have known, Tf —James Whitcomb Riley. A DEAR OLD GOOSE. “% _~ACK FURNIVAL mam ~~ Was a good man to - know. If you want- , ed-ten: dollars he'd s. [Now to love. . yo Ex out of it; if you were down on your into his chambers he'd set + himself to find out the cause of your depression and contrive to lighten your “heart before bidding you good- There are men whom you can er address by their Christian pame. 16 was just as impossible to call him Mr. al after a few days’ acquaintance. who didn’t know him set him wn for a fool; those who did know declared that he was simply the most i merous, lovable old bachelor living. course he was victimized over and again. What good-patured ‘escape being imposed ve enjoyed an independency and been rich man with a little"§élfishness in his Having. none, he had to good half dozen old; kept themselves alive through his ropy,and the children who called ather and came down upon him i seasons for material support were norning he received a letter from It ran thus: DrAr Fact am about to pay the great debtof Dature. Unhappily it is the only one in unpaid, You lent me hg have never forgotten your to me--a comparitive stranger. testimony. o =Batousts ion can give is fo appoint you sole. dian of my child, who will a ol on to I am under the sod. Adieu , dear Jack, Your £ riend i RosERT HALLECK. . This letter did not surprise Jack al-—he was so accustomed to find- self executor to men who could i no. one else to put’ their affairs order and settle up their arrears. weeks later a tall young woman of on teen or thereabouts walked into his and announced herself as the _ That question Sibu Jack Furnival ; exvsadingly while the young lady was She the biscuit and sipping the coffee he had instinctively put before Ror. She was too old to send to school, ~ and she was not old enough to put in an shouse.. As her guardian it was his first duty to see that she didn’t get into trouble, and how could he rest secure if he sent such a bright, fresh, innocent, attractive young creature as she out of his sight! He solved the difficulty at length in this way: There was a fiat above his own to let; he took the rooms, had them furnished and installed Miss Halleck in them with an old woman to wait upon | her and be a companion, who was rec- ommended by halt a dozen iespectable people. But it was ss impossible to keep Miss Halleck in her room gs to retain a bird in a cage when the door is left open. When Jack came out of his dressing . yoom in the morning he found her in his _ sithng room, and he couldn’t get her out of it until it was absolutely necessary to But for all that she was not blesome. When he had work to do came so still and silent that he _wouldn’s have koown that she was in ‘the room but for a glimpse of her bright + head over the back of a big chair, where phe sat reading a book selected at his ‘recommendation, and neger stirred till he signified that the work was done. . Then it was as if a pack of children had suddenly been set free from school. She filled the place with life and sound; she was all over the room at once With oe ache, snatches of song and scraps’ of . monsense, all so fresh and delighttal to * Jack’s ~ seemed. to carry him into a new world of . which he had had no conception. He somewhat blase senses that it found time to take her out and about a od deal—at first for her own sake, fearing his guiet mode of living would { weary her, and then for his own, finding his greatest happines arose from watching delight in the new experiences of fe." women upstairs did not mur- she was pious and sleepy and ed nothing better than to doze into ness. over a volume of Blair's hich she certainly would not ble to do had Mis Halleck e when there was no ne- s hig work was concerned. Ja serioumen and came ith amen. i wie tat cop sharp to time he had ted, lool e and a little tigi, as » Joking pul ‘ex-. to be charged with some fault, and it needed a rather embarrassing ex- planation to make her adurstant that. the formality wasa joke. = All this troubled. Jack not a Little, and he tried to get at.the reason ‘of her altered manners. and ways. , Had she received bad news from Canada? .No. Was she getting homesick? No. ' Did she sigh’ tosee her old friends again? No; she had no old friends, and thecity ii the dearest place i in allthe world fo er. Failing to any satisfactor expla . nation iby fn old woman, pa al tried the old woman when Miss Hall had gone out for ‘a ‘walk—Iatterly’ ind i{ had fallen into the habit of walking out | '] alone, without hinting at the object 4 her walk, Shaking the old woman out’ of her | . i] slambers, he asked her straightly what :§ was the matter with her young lady. “Lor’, sir! don’t you take any notice of that,” said the duenna with a cunning look in her puckered eyes. ¢“Tain’t nothing but what she'll grow out of. Every young gal's like that when she first falls in love.” Furnival saw it all clearly enough now, Her silence—her solitude seeking ~—her unexplained promenades—all were clearly enough accounted for by the fact that the girl had found some young fel- It was all natural enough, but somehow Furnival was not satisfied. Yet he saw how inevitable the thing was. “‘Oan’t expect her to keep always 8 {efi for my amusement,” thought 6) ; : : $tKitty,” said he one day, ‘I’ve found out your secret.” ‘‘What secret?’ she gasped, sinking into a chair, trembling and white. ‘Don’t be frightened, my child,” he said, drawing his chair to her side; ‘‘we have been brought into the relation of father and daughter, and all the tender-: ness a daughter commands from her father I hope you will find in me.” ‘Yes, yes, yes.” ¢*The secret I've found out is nota very dreadful one. You are in love.” - She. covered her scarlet cheeks with her hands, and presently mustering up her courage, she said-- ‘ ¢¢Yes, I am in love.” si Well, if the young fellow is Soils of your love, I cannot object to that. The only possible haxm would be in your loving some one who was undeserving.” Oh, he is the best—best ‘young fellow’ in the world.” s“That is just the one thing which is open to question, = Your judgment can scarcely be trusted in such a matter, and so I must beg you to 1g me act for you. Believe me, I shall be indulgent. Come, tell me his name.” oT can't. ” ¢sWhat, he has told you that he loves you, and not let you know his namef” © ¢tHe hasn’t told me that he loves me.” ¢tGood heavens, Kitty? Then yon don’t know if this fellow loves you at: all? 0h, I'm nearly certain he loves me.” ¢¢But does he know that you love him” ¢I don'$ think that he does. There's. the difficulty, you see. If I could-only let him know that I love him, I think it: would be all right.” : Furnival was silent before this ‘marvel of ingenuous simplicity. ‘Well, what do you propose to do, FH Kitty?” he asked, after a pause, I don’t know, quite. You see, I should die of shame if I made any ad- vance and he misconstrued it, or did not | respond as I shonld like him to do.” “Oh, I understand your- delicacy, my dear child.” “And so I have rather avoided giving him any testimony ‘of pay affection than make it known: to him. But we can’t go on like that forever, can wel” “Not if you want = It married,” said Furnival, with a la ‘And so 1 thought a perhaps. the best thing I could do would be to write to him——only I don’t quite know how to begin. .Can you hel 2 met” Pll try, thongh it's a precious diff- cult job for an old bachelor to tackle. | ‘However, we'll make the attempt. Here's a scrap of paper.” (He took an old en- velope from his pocket, tore it open and spread it on his card-case). ‘Now, how shall we begin?—better eay ‘sir'-there's no knowing what he is-may be the big- gest blackguard under the sun.” +¢] don't think he is,” said Miss Hal» leck, in parenthesis. «Ten to one he is, thongh!” said Fur- nival, under his breath, and perhaps at that moment the wish was father to the thought. ‘*Well, there we are—‘gir'— now, what's to come next? Miss Hallecleshid her face in her hands again, was silent a minute, and then murmured, tremblingly, “I love you.” . “Oh, hang it all, I can't write that,” said Furnival.” ¢#Why not, it's the truth! And what else can I say?” That was a poser. ¢ Well,” said Furnival at length, ¢fif it must be---let me see, what did you say?” +¢I love you.” «1 love you,’ there itis, next?” «Why that's all.” ¢¢That’s all?" «What else is there to say? If he dones’t love me when he reads that—”" Miss Halleck finished the sentence with ‘What ER hiabt letter I've ever written,” ‘thought Furnival. ‘But, Kitty,” he said, «what's the use of this letter mow it's written? We don’t mow the Tellow's name.” i of his hand, threw it into the hearth and ‘made for the door. ‘burst of fem) r Furnival ran after her her. with’ me," | 1 “know how y XY f | buyers. "Miss Halleck snatched the paper out | Amazed at this out- | to the written on the back of the letter you, ‘have been making such a muddle over, | ‘you dear old gouse { » glanced at the serap of paper over and he saw his own name and ad- Then he went dows” onhis knees and made himself more than ever a ‘‘dea: old goose.” Rough Diamonds and Polished. Twenty years ago the trade in rough diamonds was under $5,000,000 a year; it is now $25,000,000. - The price for assorted trade lots of fine to superior quality has declined from $25 to $15 per carat. Fair to medium go at about $10 and lower grades from 85 down. Ameri- cans are pronounced the best judges of diamonds as well as by far the largest They are expected to take this year over $15,000,000 worth, or some ‘two-thirds of the world’s total product. The Chinese and Japanese have entered the market only of recent years. Rus- sians carry off the finest of the highly esteemed bright yellow diamonds. ‘When the Brazilian mines were opened it was said that they produced no dia- monds equal to the best of those from the mines in the Indian Deccan. This was not true. After the Cape mines in South Africa were opened the same thing was repeated of them. It is not true. Diamonds strictly of the first water have ‘always been scarce and perhaps always ‘will be, ‘but those of this quality do not F differ, whether ‘they come from India, ‘Brazil, or the Cape. The production of Cape diamonds is restricted now by a trust, the De Beers Consolidated Mines, which produces nearly $17,000,- 000 out of the whole $20,000,000 ‘worth from Scuth Africa. It is ascertained that the diamond ground ‘is the filling of old volcanio craters. It came up from below bringing the diamonds already crystallized. = The diamond crystal is eight-sided or octo- hedron, two square pyramids united by their bases. stone should have sixty-four facets, ‘A broad plane uppermost is called the ¢table,” which admits the light, which, passing downward, strikes against one of the facets below the ¢eoirdle,” or juno. tion of the two pyramids; it rebounds like a billiard ball from the cushion from this facet to. the facet. parallel with it above the girdle, and thus the play of light is increased by the cutting. ‘There ‘are “pavilions,” ‘‘skill” and ‘star? facets; and according to their number the brilliant is described as single or .double cut. A rose diamond, such as may - be worked into fancy forms, is so called because it resembles an opening rosebud. It has served since 1820 to make use of diamonds which are too shallow to be cut into brilliants, for they have flat bases, instead of the culet apex, and the hemisphere on top is covered with small facets.—New York Sun. A German-Russian Military Frontier. The late famous Russian General Sko- beleff, made the suggestion that, in the case of a war between Russia and Ger- many, an army of Cossacks, from 10,000 to 100,000 or as many as could be mobil. ized, should be let loose upon Germany with an order to overrun the country, do as much damage as. they could, and dis- organize the German domestic institu- tions. It was assumed as certain” that none of these freebooters. could be ex- pected. to return to Russia ‘alive. Now a German officer has published a &cheme in the Post; a Berlin daily, to constitute the entire frontier between Germany and Russia to a depth of not less than ifty ‘miles, a military district in which every adult should be supplied with a gun and munitions in orderto be able to resist and shoot down those Tartar horsemen. The idea is considered well worth dis. cussing, seeing that these Russian sol- diers are barbarians or savages similar to the Mongols or Magyars of the middle ages, or the Scythians of whom Herod. otus speaks, and who are met most suc- ‘cessfully by irregular frontiersmen.~— .Chicago Herald, A A A AA ; Horseshoes Without Nails. . The tests that have been made by a street car company, of Paris, of a new form of nailless horseshoes, have been go successful that the company has de- cided to employ this shoe exclusively in the future. The new shoe is made of Bessemer steel, and in appearance is similar to the ordinary iron shoe, except that it has a bent lever thal attaches it- self half-way up the rear of the hoof without in any way compressing it. A clamp encloses the hoof, parting the two heels-of the shoe, and is sup= ported on the top of tha lever, which wholly sustains it, and thereby prevents compression of any part of the hoof. The shoe is also fitted with three small interior clamps, which penetrate the horn of the hoof, and prevent displace. ment of the: shoe without the pre. liminary raising of the clamp. A. num- ber of private firms in Paris have also tested the shoe with success, It is con- sidered by many that this form of shoe will soonet or latter revolutionize the farrier’s industry. —Philadelphia Record. 3 m——— IS —" — An 0ld Pear Tree. Passengers to Lawrence via the Essex ‘| branch of the Eastern Division of the Boston and Maine railroad may see, in passing ‘the high bridge approaching Davenport, a wonderful instance of the vitality of the pear tree by glancing down into the little hollow on the left. It was planted by Governor John Endicott, the first head of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1680, and stands on the once famous colomal {Orchard Farm,” within gixty rods, bearing goutheast, of the sturdy Governor’ 's mansion. "The old {ree, a mere shell, with apparently all its Jinper integuments gone, nothing but the outer bark iio andthe Bubstance | of that split in twain, still stands, and | renews again its vernal beauty in a won- esta ‘display of blossoms. But though Se blvasoms wre fairy its fruit is said to in thehearth. ‘The envelope had turned. ‘When cut as g brilliant the’ - are blood purifiers. HOUSESOLD MATTERS. - SAL-S0DA A KITCHEN TREASURE. 7 There is Bothingiiners fiseful about a kitchen than sal-soda ina little water, remove grease from any- thing, aud there is nothing like it for cleaning an iron sink. It is also the very best thing for cleaning hair brushes, which, by the by, should be cleaned much mere frequently than they are. Dissolve a little sal-soda in clear warm water and wash the bristles thoroughly, avoiding as much as possible wetting the back of the brush. Then rinse in clear water and dry with the bristle side down. ad The bristles of a brush washed in this | way will be as white and firm as those of’ a new brush.—Chicago Post. PRACTICAL DISH WASHING MACHINE. At last a satisfactory and practical machine for washing dishes has been in- vented, It is an arrangement with racks of various sizes so that each article of tableware has its own appropriate place and a whole dinner outfit ¢an be washed at the same time. Everything fits in its own little wire rack and the water 1s then turned on and they are washed perfectly clean without being touched, and they don’t even have to be dried tor after the washing is all over a crank is turned, they are rinsed with boiling hot water, the lid of the machine is left open and they are dried by steam and left perfectly smooth and shining. Silver and knives and forks of course have to he dried. The dishes can be left in the box until ‘they are needed again for the table so the endless handling by which sc many things are chipped, 18 avoided. Isn't this 8 Dicasingi-American Dairyman. PURNISHIG A ROOM WITH BARRELS, «Do you know you can really furnish. ‘a room with a few barrels?” said an en- ergetic lady, who had lived on the fron. tier for many years. «When I lived in a shanty in , at the time my hus- band was opening the new railroad, I made nearly every pbit of my furniture myself. Somedayl may tell you more about my various contrivances. The barrel and its uses is a sufficiently pro- liictheme. Why, there are no end of things they can be used for,” she con- tinued, waxing euthusiastic. ‘Cut in two, and properly fastened, they serve as washtubs or bathtubs; turn them over and upholster them, and you have beau. tiful French puff divans for your parlor, and every one knows the comfortable barrel armchairs that they make. Take out.the staves and string them on ropes, and you make for yourself a delightful hammock. Bore holes at each end of three or four and pass a rope through, knotting it to keep the staves about a foot apart, and you have ‘a perfectly good lot of bookshelves, which you can either varnish or paint.”’—New York Tribune. PRAISES FOR THE HUMBLE ONION. Onions are invaluable for soups. They A liberal use of them is recommended as a cure for boils, and they tend to make the com= plexion clear and the face free from pimples. The children of those nation- alities who eat of them most largely, noticeably escape that bane of child- hood, worms. Their use is beneficial to the digestive organs, they are excellent in certain diseases, are of benefit in liver i and their powers for in lung troubles is well known. Thoy are the best cure for insomnia. A favorite remedy for a cough is a sirup made by alternating slices of raw onion with white sugar. Cut a large onion, horizontally, into thin slices, put one in a dish, sprinkle sugar overit, then add another slice of onion, building it up thus "by layers until all are used. Cover the dish. About once in three hours a teaspoonfnl of sirup will have formed, which should be taken at inter- vals of about this length throughout the ye Hot botiltices, made of onions, and mixed with goose oil, have been used advantageously in croup. Roasted onions are sometimes bound tothe feet and placed upon the chests of little ones suf. fering from the effects of a cold: Placed raw upon a cloth, then beaten to a pulp, bandaging with this the throat and well up over the ears, they have given relief in cases of diphtheria. —Gook House- keeping. RECIPES, Sour Milk Corn (lake—One cup flour, one-half cup corn meal, one-half teas spoon salt, one-half teaspoon soda, one- third cup sugar, two eggs, one tablepoon : butter melted, one cup sour milk. = Mix the flour, meal, salt, soda (sifted) and sugar; add sour milk, eggs beaten well and butter. Bake in shallow cake-pan and cut in squares. Potato Biscuit—Oae cup each “butter, sugar, milk, hot mashed potatoes and yeast, two eggs; mix altogether with enough flour to make a batter; let this rise; then add as much flour as you can stir with a spoon;’ rise again; roll out one-half inch thick, cut in small round cakes, place one. on top of the other, or rather put two together. Baked Omelet—Six eggs,one teaspoon corn-starch, one-half teaspoon salt, one | cup sweet: ‘milk, one teaspoon butters beat yolks with corn-starch, add salt, butter and milk, and lastly, the whites, beaten separately. = Have frying-pan (this is best) hot énd well greased, pour into it and set in oven, It will bake.ina |. few minutes, and should beslipped on a° hot plate and served immediately. Easter Broth—To one quart sweet milk and one tablespoon butter, at the | boiling point, add one tablespoon flour, | € mixed thoroughly in a little cold milky +} pout into the milk, adding salt and pep: per and stir constantly till smooth and | thickened, Pour this-over a broad dish £ brown buttered tosst, covered wie Bprin] slices ‘of hard-boiled eggs. paral . Ttwill, dissolved : vets, ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. i < th descrip- 4 Stion. We advise tentable or. free. of +f charge. - Ds trai 3 ot iree Capacity 400 Machines per - FOR TEEMS, ETC.; ADDRESS DAYTON, O. omz0AGO, ILL. DAVIS SEWING MACHINE CO. “CHICAGC COTTAGE ORGAN” Has attained a standard of exoellence which admits of no superior. It containg covery provement that inventive genius, skill and money can Produce, ORGANS oF INTRINSIC { VALUE _ AND STER- LING a MERIT. | These excellent Organs aro celebrated for their volume, quality of tone, quick response, variety of combination, artistia tion, making them the most attractive, ornamental and desirable organs in the world for Homes, Schools, Churches, Lodges and Societies, Catalogues on on apylieation, Frun, Chicago (ottage Organ Bo. 228 WABASH AVE. CHICAGOD, ILL. Solentific American : _ Agency for , 5 entific uric est circulation of an Sclentifle paper in the world, 8] Ppienaidiy ilk I man Bh ou thout 5 Eo Woerly, 83 ear i S150 six months. ER, 361 a New York. design, beauty in finish, perfect construc- | and Trade-Marks obtained, andall Pat-§ Ou Srrce 18 OPPOSITE U.S. PATENT Spice sndwe fe patent in less time : enon Tron Ww ngton. . Send model, drawing or photo. wi e till patentis A PAMPHLET, “How to Obtain Patents,” with n the U.| S. and foreign countries sent r Hoa $ ess, - C.A.SNOW& CO. OPP. PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Queen of Fairies ) FOR LADIES. STRICTLY HIGHEST GRADE 2 DIANOND FRAME 1 anion ano PNEUMATIG / === TIRES === 3 WARRANTY WITH EVERY WHEEL SEND YOUR ADDRESS FOR CATALOGUE ~ ARIEL CYCLE MFG, C0, come OULTRY FOR PROFIT. ny people are deterred from keeping poul ing an epidemic will curry off their keeping poultef fear The Bird Food Co.'s chicken Crores Priis redude the on t easily Piven The hig 1 LA when mized with 11 greatly increase owers. This Powder keeps poultry healthy * ora disease, and for young Chickens | There is Pitas aunt bo Je for Ee their growth, Powpex 25 cents for argo pac) eepers generally, or they will t ‘the same ne. price, Poultry Powder for 00 North T . BIRD FOOD co, Lh He ‘Nervousness, ‘Weakness, Nervous Debi Exhausted Nervous Vitality, Neivous Prostrat ation, Scilly Bai paned 2 Hysteria, Paralysi ance, P: sigia, Rhoui an 2 Nervous and Sick Headache, Netvous is Dyipe i Melnuchol ’ Ph sloatie ns ov orked ly fo - fr le Memory, 8 Bi Kidney Diseases; Diabetes, Drunkenness or the Liquor Habit, rains are constantly active exhaust the nervous forces they become forgetfu! distressing pain in eyes and head, Thousands of women are k, tired and finally they are overcome by prostration of he eer system and pradus + ally break down. ie Nerve Bitters rebuild, Sirengthe and. invigorate Botan! the whole being. Calms the nerves, induces sleep and restores ith. Many suffer from a debility of some nature concerns ing which they do not feel free to speak to thelr physician, It is that drain upon the system which is the cause of many" diseases of the Nerves, Stomach, Heart, Kidney and Bladder, Producing softening of the Brain, Epilepsy cr Fits, Insanity, se A oiling ng Ju oe ord. eompares with Bol N ly cure of the above com; bottle, se only by the Paints. Herb Medicine Company, . . 60 ots, per | 348 DILLWYN Stree, PHILADELPHIA, PAs WANT A YOU were soe WE MAKE IT STEEL AND IRON Ln ROOFING PAINTS, CORRU- i ED IRON SIDINGS TAND LIN Corrugated fron Suliable 18 jor Elevators, M , Mills, Barns, ’ Bestand ea roof in the world; tools loaned to apply it; any one can put it on. ‘Full in ten ons sent with all orders; wind, water and lightning proof. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, N. A. HauDeman & Co., 83 N. FRONT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA: AGENTS WANTED. { go FORCE FEEDS \ Actuated by Solid Gear Shaft. § _LIGHTEST DRAFT LOW HOPPER _ ANY DEPTH 88 men, Professional men, students and clerks whose = ful, nervous, Ireliable; with dull brain and i i tanic Nerve 2 Us
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers